The BBC used the horrific murder of Olympic Athlete Rebecca Cheptegei by her boyfriend as an example of male violence faced every day by 'women and girls' in a BBC news report on Thursday.
Olympic runner Rebecca Chaptegei was reportedly doused in petrol and set alight by her boyfriend following an argument. Chaptegel was burned alive and later died from her injuries. Her boyfriend Dickson Ndiema, was taken into custody following the horrific event.
The attack took place in Northern Kenya shortly after the athlete had arrived back home following her gold medal performance in Paris.
The murder was truly horrific but it should be remembered that it was committed by a crazed individual from a different culture, in a different country. This is worth noting because the BBC managed to use the murder in their ongoing war on British Males. The entire report was not about the fate of Rebecca Chaptegei but rather another piece about the evils of all men.
Within seconds of the report starting the phrased "violence against women and girls" was trotted out, revealing that a propaganda piece was about to follow which sure enough it did. After skirting over the fact that the murder was in a different country, involving two people from a different culture, and was vanishingly rare, the BBC used the murder to 'highlight' 'violence against women'. They segwayed into the propaganda by saying: "For some it fits into a wider pattern of violence against women and girls".
In the news report an 'expert' on 'Women's issues' was drafted in to give it an air of authenticity. The expert claimed that Cheptegei was probably murdered because '(Kenyan) men don't like powerful and successful women.' In reality the two had been arguing over a piece of land and the murder had absolutely NOTHING to do with Cheptegei being 'powerful', successful', or indeed a woman, yet this shameless propagandising by the BBC went entirely unchecked.
The BBC chose to reframe the murder as another example of 'toxic masculinity', They used the murder to push their own agenda. They implied that the horrific murder was something all women face on a daily basis, instead of a sickening but rare crime committed by a crazed African in his own country. They didn't directly say it of course, but the message was clear. By implying all 'women and girls' are victims they also imply all men are perpetrators.
The BBC regularly talk about 'gender-based violence' as if it means something. An utterly ridiculous categorisation designed to vilify men for the crime of being,,, men.
This was a truly sickening crime. Cheptegei died in the most horrific of ways and to see our national broadcaster use such a tragedy to push their ludicrous identity politics really does show that they've stooped to a new low.
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